China and the World Since 1949

Gungwu, Wang

St.Martin's Press

Wang Gungwu's study of the relationship between China and the Chinese with imperial Britain examines the possibilities, as well as the limits of their encounters. Beyond the clichés of opium, fighting, and the diplomatic skills needed to fend off rivals and enemies, Gungwu probes areas of more intimate encounters, not least of which is the beginning of a broader English-speaking future between the two countries.

Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance

China Reconnects (Chinese Edition)

Hualing Publishing House

Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II

Politics & Social Sciences

Jennifer W. Cushman

Social Sciences

Hong Kong University Press

"More than 25 million Chinese left their homeland from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century to settle abroad together with their families and descendants." "Don't Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese describes this massive wave of migration and the smaller ones that occurred in the last three decades of the 20th century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Don't Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese

History

WANG, GUNGWU

Asia

Marshall Cavendish Intl

"This is a collection of 11 essays that focus on the development of ideas in China amidst the exercise of power in Chinese history. The essays explore the work of scholars, rebels and reformers within the context of changes in civilization, and how their contributions have shaped the China of the present."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Ideas Won't Keep: The Struggle for China's Future

Historical Study & Educational Resources

The early history of the maritime trade of China had been largely studied (at the time of this 1954 study) from the Western point of view, that is, as the eastern terminal point of a trade carried and dominated by Indians, Persians and Arabs. This had also been true of the early history of Southeast Asia. Historians, both of China and of Southeast Asia, had seen the trade mainly as the coming of Western merchants in search of gold, silks and various kinds of spices. No study (then) had yet been made of the ancient trade between China and Southeast Asia which was known to the Chinese as the Nanhai trade. This book, The Nanhai Trade: Early Chinese Trade in the South China Sea, introduces this subject. It examines various features of this trade, especially the economic background and the Chinese imperial and regional attitudes towards it. The period covered is the eleven centuries before the founding of the Sung dynasty in 960 -- roughly the period from the Han dynasty to the T'ang. This one of Professor Wang Gungwu's early studies, now re-issued under the Eastern Universities Press imprint.

The Nanhai Trade: Early Chinese Trade in the South China Sea

Business & Money

The ethnic Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore have forged strong bonds with the native Malays. This sometimes spirited relationship started over two millennia ago with trading links between the peoples of the China coasts and the Malay Archipelago. This reissue of the book picks up the story in the 15th century when these trading ties were boosted due to China's official relations with the Malay kingdom of Malacca. From business, the interactions extended rapidly into the cultural and political spheres during the 19th and 20th centuries in British Malaya and later in the Malaysian Federation. Despite some serious setbacks in recent decades, the encounters must now be seen in the context of nation-building as the former immigrants and the Malays together form the young nations of Malaysia and Singapore.

Only Connect! Sino-Malay Encounters

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